Elizabeth A. Colburn, Ph.D., is an aquatic ecologist who has spent much of the past twenty-five years studying, teaching about, and working for the protection of vernal pools and other small wetlands in the formerly glaciated northeastern United States. She worked for Massachusetts Audubon for eighteen years, and presently is on the staff of Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts
Preface
vii
Introducing Vernal Pools
1
(20)
Hydrology
21
(12)
Vernal Pools in the Landscape: Origins, Landscape Positions, and Habitat Characteristics
33
(20)
Bacteria, Protists, Algae, and Fungi
53
(8)
Vegetation
61
(10)
Life History Strategies of Pool Animals
71
(12)
Non-Arthropod Invertebrates
83
(22)
Crustaceans
105
(22)
Insects
127
(36)
Water Mites and Miscellaneous Other Arthropods
163
(8)
Amphibians
171
(44)
Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals
215
(8)
Energy Flow, Seasonal Cycles, and Variations in Community Composition
223
(18)
Protecting Vernal Pools
241
(38)
Afterword
279
(2)
Glossary
281
(12)
Appendix: An Annotated List of the Fauna of Vernal Pools and Seasonal Ponds in and near the Glaciated Northeast
293
(66)
Bibliography
359
(62)
Index
421
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